SEAN PRICE at Revival (783 College), tonight (Thursday, August 26), 10 pm. $15 adv. rotate.com.
Sean Price is the Jackie Mason of the rap world: growing old and cynical, but with a sense of humour.
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“I’m boiling some franks right now,” he says from his New York City home. “The wife just came back from the bootleg DVD shop with some Tyler Perry ‘nigga done me wrong’-type shit.”
The outspoken Heltah Skeltah/Boot Camp Clik alumnus has been active since 1996 and is now two solo and six collaborative albums deep, with another dozen official mixtapes under his belt. He’s prepping to release Random Axe (Duck Down), a disc with fellow hip-hop elite rappers Guilty Simpson and producer Black Milk.
“The album is dope. Guilty and I would each write a verse, then try to top it. The beats are crazy, too. Black got me to rhyme over the weirdest shit.”
Like on the psychedelic-rock-inspired Let Me Tell You. “I’m a big Jim Morrison fan,” says Price, his voice characteristically smoky. “I’ve been listening to the Doors a lot lately.”
Price is also busy with his next solo release, Mic Tyson (Duck Down), which will include production by Toronto artists Marco Polo and Tone Mason as well as American heavy hitters Alchemist, 9th Wonder and Khrysis.
Though Price is ostensibly married to the rap game, his wife and kids, including a five-month-old daughter who shares his name, come first.
“I don’t like nobody,” says Price with a chuckle. “Older I get, the more anti I get. It’s just me and my family. Everyone else is ‘FOH’ status: fuck outta here.”
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